A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Acknowledged that the police have asked him questions about mollie. He told me does not know the results of that Lie Detector Test and he insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance. Shep . Shepard matt finn on scene brooklyn, iowa. The judge in Paul Manaforts trial has apologized now to the special counsel Robert Muellers team for being too harsh on them in font front of the jury. Yesterday the judge criticized prosecutors from allowing an Expert Witness from the irs to stay in the courtroom while other witnesses were testifying. Prosecutors pointed out he had already okayed. This now the judge says he was wrong. More on that ahead. The feds say President Trumps former Campaign Chairman was the master mind of a multimilliondollar scheme to evade u. S. Taxes and banking laws. He faces more than a dozen charges connected to lobbying he did for a prorussia Political Group in ukraine. Paul manafort pleaded n
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the argument here on whether the russia investigation will actually be a Drag On Republicans in november. Because just hours after he insisted that mueller should wrap this whole thing up by september 1, inaccurately saying that the Department Of Justice dictate that, not true,
admonished the prosecutor in front of the jury and then the prosecutors said they were going to file a motion to clear tn upe record and clear the air requwi the jury. and the judge said this morning, in front of the jury, i was probably wrong in that, this robe doesn t make me anything other than human. that was his apology. is it possible do you think that he just forgot? how crazy it is that you have a judge in this megaimportant trial apologizing? i have never had a judge apologize to me. there s a first for everything. i think he just did forget. i don t think we can attribute any bad motive to that, but it was a pretty shocking admonition of the prosecution. this was a role thule he had ma before the trial, that he could sit in the courtroom can during the trial, it s not common for
formally complained that this judge who keeps dressing them down in front of the jury might be killing their case. and apparently the final straw for the prosecutors was late yesterday, right before they went to recess when the judge admonished them for allowing a government witness to sit in the court before he took the stand. the problem the mueller team has with that the judge never said that witnesses couldn t sit and watch from the pews that are in the back. from the benches that are in the back before they took the stand. so they filed a motion where they said this in part. the mistake here prejudiced the government by conveying to the jury that the government had acted improperly and had violated court rules or procedures. well, this morning the judge came, in hat in hand and he said this: this robe doesn t make me anything other than human. any criticism of counsel should be put aside. after that the folks at the manafort trial today shifted to bank fraud and whether or not pau